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Franklin Lewis's Degrees
- PhD Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago
- Masters Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago
- Bachelors Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago
Why Is Franklin Lewis Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Franklin D. Lewis was an Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago with affiliations to the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. He taught classes on Persian language and literature, medieval Islamic thought, Sufism, Baha'i Studies, translation studies, and Iranian cinema.
Franklin Lewis's Published Works
Published Works
- Rumi: Past and Present, East and West: The Life, Teaching, and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi (2000) (61)
- Mystical Poems of Rumi (1968) (26)
- Relationship of Motor Proficiency and Reading Retardation (1970) (12)
- Reading, writing and recitation : Sanāʾi and the origins of the Persian ghazal (1996) (10)
- Sexual Occidentation: The Politics of Conversion, Christian-love and Boy-love in ‘Attār (2009) (6)
- The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi as World Literature (2015) (6)
- In a voice of their own : a collection of stories by Iranian women written since the Revolution of 1979 (1996) (5)
- Tahirih in History: Perspectives on Qurratu’l-‘Ayn From East and West. Los Angeles, Kalimat Press, 2004, xiv+292 p. [Studies in the Bábí and Bahá’í Religions, 16] (2006) (1)
- Foreword to the New and Corrected Edition (2019) (1)
- The Semiotic Horizons of Dawn in the Poetry of Ḥāfiẓ (2010) (1)
- To Round and Rondeau the Canon (2018) (1)
- In Memoriam, Leonard Lewisohn (1953–2018) (2020) (1)
- Authorship, 'auctoritas' , and the management of literary estates in pre-modern Persian literature (2018) (1)
- The Necklace of the Pleiades: 24 Essays on Persian Literature, Culture and Religion (2010) (1)
- Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City (2005) (0)
- Táhirih: A Portrait in Poetry (Selected Poems of Qurratu’l-‘Ayn). Translated by Jascha Kessler and Anthony Lee, Los Angeles, Kalimat Press, 2004, 145 p. [Studies in Bábí and Bahá’í History, 17] (2006) (0)
- Love’s Freedom: A Ghazal from Rumi’s Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi (2010) (0)
- A Book of Kings as the King of Books: TheShahnamehof Ferdowsi (2019) (0)
- GERTRUDE BELL, The Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell (Bethesda, Md.: Iranbooks, 1995). Pp. 176. (2001) (0)
- The Uses of Adversity: A Ghazal from Rumi’s Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi (2011) (0)
- Moṣannafāt-e fārsī. Ed. Najīb Māyel Haravī, 2nd printing, Tehrān, Entešārāt-e ‘Elmī va Farhangī, 1383/2005, lv+470 p. (2007) (0)
- Badāye‘ al-molaḥ (now-hā-ye namakīn). Persian translation by Movaffaq b. Ẓāher-e Ḫvārazmī [sic] ; edited by Moṣṭafā Olīā’ī, Tehrān, Mīrāṯ-e Maktūb, 1382/2003. xxxiv+212 p. [Zabān va adabiyyāt-e fārsī, 28] (2006) (0)
- Persian Literary Influence on English Literature: With Special Reference to the Nineteenth Century. Costa Mesa, Mazda Publishers, 2005, xiii + 254 p. (Bibliotheca Iranica, Literature Series, 8) (2007) (0)
- A Festival, an Eid, an Advent: A Ghazal from Rumi’s Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī (2012) (0)
- The Necklace of the Pleiades : Studies in Persian literature presented to Heshmat Moayyad on his 80th birthday : 24 essays on Persian literature, culture and religion (2010) (0)
- al-Loma‘ fī al-taṣawwuf. Edited by Reynold A. Nicholson, Persian translation by Mehdī Mojtabā, Tehrān, Asāṭīr, 1382/2003, 509 p. (2006) (0)
- Studies in Honor of the Late Hasan M. Balyuzi, ed. Moojan Momen, Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, vol. 5, Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1988, xx + 293 pp. (1999) (0)
- The Image of Arabs in Modern Persian Literature, Joya Blondel Saad, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1996, ix + 139 pp., index, paper, ISBN 0–7618–0330–0 (1999) (0)
- Mawlānā Rūmī, the Early Mevlevis and the Gendered Gaze: Prolegomenon to an Analysis of Rūmī’s View of Women (2017) (0)
- Things we left unsaid (2012) (0)
- The Vernal Friend’s Return: A Ghazal from Rūmī’s Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī (2014) (0)
- Scripture as Literature. Sifting Through the Layers of the Text (2011) (0)
- The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi. San Francisco, HarperSanFrancisco, 2004, xli + 149 p. (2006) (0)
- 12. A Persian in a Pear Tree: Middle Eastern Analogues for Pirro/Pyrrhus (2018) (0)
- Oral history interview with Frank Lewis, 2003 June 25 (2004) (0)
- Winter Sleep, Goli Taraqqi, translated by Francine Mahak, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1994, 104 pp., ISBN 0–939214–42–3. (1999) (0)
- The letters between Adolphe Quetelet and William Farr 1852-1874. (1983) (0)
- Me & Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrizi. Louisville, Kentucky, Fons Vitae, 2004, xxv+409 p. (2006) (0)
- A Treatise on Mystical Love. Translated by Joseph Norment Bell and Hassan Mahmood Abdul Latif Al Shafie, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2005, lxx+224 p. (Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies Monograph Series, 1) (2007) (0)
- Pendār-hā-ye yūnānī dar Maṯnavī. Tehrān, Rowzane, 1384/2005, 394 p. (2007) (0)
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